                  Welcome to Magic Notes for Windows 3.x/95/98/NT


Magic Notes is a quick and easy way to organize your notes right on your 
desktop. Use Magic Notes to remind you of events with its powerful alarm 
functionality or customize your notes to how YOU want them to look. No need to 
remember to save or have your notes take up valuable screen screen. Magic Notes 
also includes several functions to organize your notes on screen or even hide 
them temporarily from your desktop.

Magic Notes is even easier to use under Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0 with a taskbar 
icon for easy access and with added adherence to the Windows 95/98 look and feel.

Magic Notes is also 100% environmentally friendly and completely recyclable ;-).

Minimum requirements for Magic Notes are an 80386 processor running Windows 3.x 
or better with 4MB of memory.

Instructions on using Magic Notes can be found in the Windows help file, 
available after you run SETUP.EXE.


In your package you should have received the following files:

        SETUP.EXE     - The Installation program for Magic Notes
        README.TXT    - This file
        WHATSNEW.TXT  - Revision history
        LICENCE.TXT   - The Magic Notes license and disclaimer.


LICENCE.TXT contains the Magic Notes license and disclaimer that you agree to 
abide by when using or distributing the Magic Notes software package. 

The Magic Notes software package is distributed as shareware.  The UNREGISTERED 
version is for evaluation purposes only.

You may use the evaluation copy of Magic Notes for 45 days. If you find Magic 
Notes to be a useful tool and wish to continue using it beyond the 45-day 
evaluation period, you must register your copy using the supplied registration 
program (REGISTER.EXE) or using the a range of online systems available from the
Magic Notes web site at (http://www.magicnotes.com).

Upon receipt of your registration, you will receive your personal registration code,
which disables the opening shareware screen and allows free upgrades until the major
new version.

As a registered user you will also receive free technical support.


                        Installation instructions
                        -------------------------

Unzip the files in this archive and run SETUP.EXE program from within Windows. 
The setup program will automatically detect which operating system you're 
running on.


                           Uninstall instructions
                           ----------------------

Magic Notes comes with an uninstall option accessible via a Program Manager 
group under Windows 3.x or the Control Panel Add/Remove programs under 
Windows95/98/NT4.0. The uninstall will remove all executable and data files except 
for your saved notes. If you which to completely remove it you need to remove 
the directory where you installed the program (normally C:\MNOTES or
C:\Program Files\Magic Notes).



                                Legal Stuff

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT AND PROMISES TO THE CONTRARY. YOU MAY 
DISTRIBUTE THIS PROGRAM FREELY AS LONG AS ALL THE FILES, INCLUDING THIS 
DISCLAIMER, ARE INCLUDED.  KARL EDWALL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE OF THIS 
SOFTWARE OR DAMAGE THAT THIS SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE. MAGIC NOTES IS COPYRIGHT KARL 
EDWALL, 1996.  ALL OTHER COPYRIGHTS ARE RETAINED BY THEIR OWNERS.
